Goma | Tuesday AT least 13 looters have been shot dead in this town ravaged by volcanic lava and those tempted to steal in houses and stores have been warned by radio there would be no mercy. Military sources late on Monday confirmed reports that 13 people, including seven soldiers, had been shot by officers […]

A WOMAN accused of being a witch was bludgeoned to death by the people of her Central African village after allegedly killing a man with sorcery, the national radio reported on Sunday. Another woman accused of being the alleged witch’s accomplice remains in critical condition after suffering the same fate, the radio station reported. The […]

THE Johannesburg Emergency Management Service on Sunday said it had attended to three drownings involving children in the last four days. Two of the children died and another was discharged from hospital after observation. The latest victim was a six-year-old child who went swimming with friends in the pool of the complex where they stayed […]

DIRK VAN ZYL, Cape Town | Tuesday SEXUAL abuse of schoolgirls by teachers and members of the community was rife in South Africa, with one case reported of a teacher who impregnated 20 girls at one Eastern Cape school, the National Council of Provinces members were told on Tuesday. The NCOP’s education select committee have […]

AMY MUSGRAVE, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE ownership of land in South Africa by foreigners should come under a countrywide debate, the African National Congress said on Monday. ANC representative Smuts Ngonyama told reporters in Johannesburg that South African inhabitants were in ”dire need of land”, and this could be addressed by halting the foreign ownership […]

Durban | Tuesday KWAZULU-Natal premier Lionel Mtshali on Monday announced that the province would start making available to HIV-positive pregnant mothers in state hospitals the anti-retroviral drug Nevirapine. The drug has some success in preventing transmission of the syndrome from the mother to newborn babies. Mtshali said he took the decision on principle saying it […]

SIX men were shot dead and three other people, including a nine-year-old boy and a woman, injured when 12 armed men attacked eight houses at Besters in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday morning, police said. Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said the men attacked the houses at 6am. The motive of the attack was immediately unknown but police were […]

Grahamstown | Tuesday THE SA Shore Angling Association (Sasaa) and the small community of Oyster Bay near Cape St Francis have brought an urgent court challenge to the regulations banning the use of off-road vehicles (ORVs) on the beach. The Sasaa and the Oyster Bay Ratepayers Association (Obra) have applied to the Port Elizabeth High […]